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(No Model.)

J. F. GUMMIN-GS.

DEVIGEFOR PREVENTING FRAUDULBNT REFILLING F BOTTLES.

No. 548,428. :Patented oct. 22, 1895.

15M/@706er UNITED STATES PATE-NT JAMES F. OUMMINGS, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO HARRY B. BENNETT, OF SAME PLAGE, AND GARSOIT J. NEWITTER, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, AND NATHAN soi-twas, or New YORK, N. Y.

DEVICE FOR'PREVENTING FRAUDULENT RFILLING OF BOTTLES.

SIECIFIGATION forming part of Letters :Patent No. 548,428, dated October 22, 1895.

Application tiled June 21, 1894. Renewed April 13,1895. Serial No. 545.659. (No model.)

all whom it may con/cern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES F. Comunes, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Prevent- Ying the Fraudulent Retilling of Bottles, of

which the following is a specitication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to an improvement in devices for preventing the fraudulent relling of bottles; and it consists in the construction and arrangement ot' parts hereinafter described, and definitely pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical central longitudinal section through the neck of a bottle, showing my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detached perspective View of the parts of the valve-support and the valve. Fig. 3 is a section similar to Fig. 1 through a modified construction; and Fig. i is aperspective view, similar to Fig. 2, of the parts shown in Fig. 3.

The construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is that which I prefer to employ.

A represents the neck of the bottle, in which the seat or shoulder B is formed, preferably, by an enlargement of the aperture or opening at the mouth of the bottle. On this shoulder after the bottle is lled I support and secure by means of a cement or in any other suitable manner a diaphragm or disk O. This disk has a central aperture D, closed by the check-valve E, which has a guide-stem or guide-wings F projecting through the aperture D and a guid e-stem G entering the guideaperture H in the block I. The diaphragm is preferably recessed, as shown in Fig. l, and a valve is at the lower end of this recess. In the inclined walls of this recess are the grooves J, extending to the edge thereof and inclining from their outer edges downwardly to the seat K, upon which the valve-disk rests. The

block I is next secured in position by means of cementin such relation to the top of the bottle as to leave room for a suitable stopper or cork L. This block is provided with the marginal grooves M, which about midway,T their length are provided with the enlargement or recess N, and centrally of this recess is secured aring O, which engages in a hori-v Zontal groove P in the block, thus forming a tortuous course from the mouth of the bottle around the inner edge of the ring. The block is so secured in position that the lower ends of the grooves M register with the groove .I in the diaphragm and thus form a continuous exit port or passage.

The parts being thus constructed, their operation is as follows: lVhen the bottle is inverted for pouring, the valve will fall away from its seat and be supported in the guideway Hin the block, leaving a free egress for the fluid through the grooves .I and M. Ifit is attempted to retill the bottle, the valve K will close and this will be equally true whether the attempt is made to refill with the bottle in its normal or in its inverted position.

The cock L is placed in position to prevent evaporation or leakage in transit, and it may be covered with the usual capsule Q (shown in Fig. l) or with the special cap R, (shown in Fig. 3) cemented to the outside of the neck of the bottle.

In Figs.-8 and 4 I have shown a somewhat similar construction of diaphragm and block, except that in this construction I have shown a ball-valve S in place of the disk-valve K; but the arrangement and construction of the block and diaphragm are substantially the same.

What I claim as my invention isan 1. The combination with the neck of a bottle having a shoulder formed therein, of a centrally apertured diaphragm resting on said shoulder and formed with a valve seat above the aperture, radial grooves formed in the npper face of the diaphragm, and inclined from said valve seat, a block fitted in the neck of the bottle and resting on the diaphragm and having radial grooves in its under face registering with the grooves in the diaphragm, and vertical side grooves extending the full length of the block and connecting at their lower ends directly with the outer ends of said other grooves, the central lower portion of the block having a recess arranged in alignment with the aperture in the diaphragm, and a valve loosely seated on the valve seat and having free endwise movement. in the recess in the block, substantially as described.

2. The combination in the neck of the bottle,

the diaphragm C secured therein having a central aperture, the inclined grooves .I in

said diaphragm, a valve controlling the cen-V tral aperture at the base of said grooves, the block I having the vertical grooves with a central enlargement., a ring O secured in a horizontal groove in the block opposite such enlargement and the cork L, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature inpresence of two Witnesses.

JAMES 1F. OUMMINGS. Vitnesses:

M. B. ODOGHERTY, L. J. WHITTEMORE. 

